The
blog below is one of several relating to Bexley Councillor Maxine Fothergill and
Bexley Council’s Code of Conduct Committee. This
note aims to make it clear that the events reported between December 2015 and
the Summer of 2016 whilst accurate reflections of various events, disciplinary hearings and sanctions
brought against Councillor Fothergill they are individually insufficient to explain the whole story.

Two members of the Bexley-is-Bonkers team met with Councillor Fothergill at a
secret location on 16th September 2016 where she explained to us what had really happened. She was able to
convince us that she was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

There were compelling reasons why Councillor Fothergill should be believed. It seemed likely that
the Tory High Command in Bexley had taken revenge on her because Councillor
Fothergill had reported one of their associates to the police for theft.

Councillor Fothergill requested that the explanatory note prefixed to relevant blogs (which first went on line a few days earlier) be further
strengthened so that readers are fully aware that reported events, whilst
accurate at the time, did not reflect her innocence and that Bexley Council’s charge
of misconduct and “gaining a financial advantage for herself” was malicious.

This is a modified version of the note Councillor Fothergill asked to be placed here.

Mr. Bryant wrote to Akin Alabi, the Head of Legal Services to make the point that
nothing could be perceived from something the Council was desperate to keep secret.
The answer was obvious, they couldn’t, but Mr. Alabi did not want to be the one who
who destroyed the tower of playing cards, so
he sent it off to the hapless
Complaints and FOI Officer. She replied as follows…
The question, as you can see, has been totally ignored. For the record, Mr. Bryant also
posed his question to the Council Leader and her Deputy. The Deputy acknowledged
it but there has been no answer from either. What did he expect?

The alleged victim of this affair is close to 100 years old and must obviously
be treated with extreme delicacy although there is no indication that her faculties are
impaired. Through an intermediary who knows her well she is being asked if she
wishes to take the matter further.

Bexley Council’s plan for a news blackout has not stood up well against public opinion.